Tshwane north district officially opens Dilopye Pre Vocational School

Gauteng Department of Education (Tshwane North district) officially opened Dilopye Pre Vocational school in Dilopye near Hammanskraal on Monday.

District director Thea Coetser said the school aims to accommodate learners who are more oriented towards skills education and the technical occupational curriculum.

“Learners will be taught skills in food technology, office administration, beauty care, and as the school grows, other subjects such as motor mechanics and pipe fitting will be introduced, as the school grows the skills that will be introduced will be growing as well.”

Coetser said the school had 14 learners on the day of the opening but they had an initial enrolment of 68 learners.

“When we contacted them, only 14 said they will be part of the opening. People do not believe in things before they see them happening.

“We believe the need is so big that when people see something is happening on the ground, the learners will be coming from the local communities.”

She said the school will cater for learners who are 14-years-old and turning 15 who have also finished their primary school.

“In level one we will give them the general curriculum with the general exposure to all the skills and in year two, they will choose the skills in which they would like to specialise. They will then do that skill for three years after which they will do an exam and they will be given certificates,” she explained.

“The main aim to generate learners that are more workplace-ready when they leave the schooling system. We have a lot of learners that do not academically cope and then they either drop out or they get a matric with general subjects which do not enable them to generate an income.

“So the whole skill curriculum is aimed at enabling a learner so that when he leaves after the four years to have a skill that will capacitate him or her to actually earn an income. Learners exiting the system does also not necessarily have to stop in terms of tuition, they can also enrol at a TVET College to further their qualification that they already have,” she said.

She said learners who are struggling are identified through the mainstream curriculum and they will be referred via the primary school in which they attend to their physiologist in the district.

Coetser said there is a special budget that has been allocated to the school to enable them to buy equipment and maybe build workshops so they can move from the soft skills like the hairdressing they are offering at the moment and move into workshop-related skills as well.

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